I am 60. I have missed one primary ever. I was sick. I vote in person. I know in some cases it's a cultural thing, but I don't understand not voting. One thing I am looking forward to voting for is the amendment that will return voting rights to convicted felons in Florida. Every citizen who wants to vote should have that right. I wish we had the day off as a National Holiday, every November.

I'm in Australia,we vote on a Saturday and voting is compulsary,you are fined if you dont vote,unless you have a valid reason,although our conservitive party would like to change it.
although you do have to register and a lot of younger gernerations are not registering.

funny thing is the Liberal party,IE "our conservitives",wanting a postal vote om marriage equality,so of course the younger lot had to register to vote"so now a whole younger gerneration are registered and will have to vote in election.

I'm in Australia,we vote on a Saturday and voting is compulsary,you are fined if you dont vote,unless you have a valid reason,although our conservitive party would like to change it.
although you do have to register and a lot of younger gernerations are not registering.

funny thing is the Liberal party,IE "our conservitives",wanting a postal vote om marriage equality,so of course the younger lot had to register to vote"so now a whole younger gerneration are registered and will have to vote in election.

High turnout has historically favored Dems. Hence the Republicans' effective efforts to suppress the vote. Everyone on the left has been hoping demographics are going to be the death knell of Republican power. But traditionally most Latinx and Asian folk don't vote. And among registered voters, their turnout is the lowest. But if they were to vote in greater numbers, I don't think the effect would be as strongly in the favor of Dems as they hope. There are many many conservative Latinx. The evangelicals tend to vote like white evangelicals; whereas African American evangelicals do not. There are many conservative Asian voters as well.

Youth from every background can be counted on to vote in a more liberal way, but they're not voting. It's so hard to predict turnout among younger voters. You hear about enthusiasm and increased registration, but that does not always translate into turnout.

Three weeks. I talked to a guy today a few years older than I am. Lives near me in a red county of a purple state. He's hoping for a big blue wave, he said. It's nice to meet strangers here and find they aren't predictably conservative. He has a history of union membership. The longer I live and observe life under capitalism, the more I think that nothing is more important in creating a decent life and decent communities than our unions.

Three weeks. I talked to a guy today a few years older than I am. Lives near me in a red county of a purple state. He's hoping for a big blue wave, he said. It's nice to meet strangers here and find they aren't predictably conservative. He has a history of union membership. The longer I live and observe life under capitalism, the more I think that nothing is more important in creating a decent life and decent communities than our unions.

If the Dems do win the House, I will start making calls in support of anyone but Pelosi for Speaker.

I received my voter's guide in the mail, last week, and I also received my ballot by mail. Today, I'm going to fill out my ballot and personally deliver it to the elections office tomorrow.

We have a lot at stake, here in my state (Oregon).

There is an GOP candidate that is running against our democratic incumbent, Governor Kate Brown. That person has voted down laws on books, prior to running as an gubernatorial opponent of Brown. Although we have many seats held by Democrat's elected to office, it's important to make sure this person is not elected (Brown's GOP opponent). We, in our state, do not take it for granted all the good work accomplished by elected democratic officials in office.

For those not aware, the largest county (by population count) in our state, Multnomah county, is the only reason we have democrats elected to office. By and large, Oregon is an red state, if it were not for the largest representation of democratic voters in Oregon. We call ourselves the "Pale Blue Dot" (referencing Carl Sagan).

I turned in my ballot earlier today and tonight, because not much good news can be found online, I turned to YouTube and low and behold, the Today News Feed just uploaded the live stream video of Obama's Vegas address, to voters in Nevada. I'm watching it right now, it's about 40 minutes long, but it is contagious and inspirational and he drives home some very important ideas about what's at stake during mid-term elections, in just a couple of weeks.

Two weeks. I so am pulling for my state's progressive candidate for governor, Andrew Gillum. I will vote Democratic otherwise, with less enthusiasm, because the alternative is worse. I am disgusted that Pelosi will be Speaker again just because she raised a lot of money. Fuck her. One of the few good things that has come out of 2016 is the Progressive challenge to mainstream Dems. Not successful yet, but being heard. That's better than before.

I went and did early voting today and also signed up for the Vote Van for several days until Election Day.
The Vote Van picks up people around my county and drives them to the polls if they dont have a ride.

Folks - If you have any spare resources or time, please consider helping get people to the polls to vote. Especially older folks, People of Color, and poor folks who can't afford public transportation. Uber and Lyft are doing free and reduced rides in several places but they don't cover a lot of rural areas and we have GOT to get people to the polls by every means necessary.

VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT...because it DOES.

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I'll be voting and driving folks to vote. I have my work van reserved for the day and have been making sure that everyone who moves into the buildings that I manage has the opportunity to register to vote at their new address.

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